Crook caught red-handed

Police allegedly caught a crook red-handed with a TV and pail full of booze early Wednesday when they pulled up to a restaurant and saw him through a window.

Officers were dispatched to a pizza place in the 3200 block of Walker Road around 2:30 a.m. after an alarm went off.

They arrived on scene to see a man through the window inside the building. He was trying to remove a large flat screen television from the wall behind the main bar, police said.

The officers turned their flashlights on the man and called out to him. They ordered him to come outside. He did so by crawling through a damaged panel on the north wall of the building. Police said it appears the man previously removed the panel to get inside.

When the officers arrested him, he was carrying a piece of concrete, a knife, a black tuque and a pair of cotton gloves.

Police then went inside. They found a pail behind the bar full of liquor bottles. The TV behind the bar was unplugged.
The owner later arrived on scene and told police that when he closed the place at 11 p.m. Tuesday, the TV was plugged in and the booze wasn’t in the pail.
Jeremy Douglas Smith, 34, of Windsor, is facing charges of break and enter, possess a break-in instrument and breach of probation.

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